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I love to fly.

It's just you're alone.

You have peace and quiet.

Nothing around you but clear blue sky.

No one to hassle you.

No one fo tell you where to go or what fo do.

The only bad part about flying

is having fo come back down fo the fucking world.

Spare some change, ma'am, so me and my father can get something to eat?

- No, I don't, son. - All right.

Why not say you're my father, man?

- No. - All right, then get lost.

I gotta make some money.

Living downtown, a typical day was

/d get up at 12.00,

um, take a shower, get something fo eat.

Then 3.00, I was on my robbing streak.

Start robbing people until 6.00, 7.00.

Spare some change, sir?

Then I'd go get my drugs, get my food.

Get my - whoever I was gonna sleep with for that night.

What's up, what's up?

- Not much. - Spare some change?

- Hell no. - Let me get a kiss.

- Hell no. - Oh, well. Life's hard.

Party until 12:00.

Then everybody would turn in and stuff.

J burning down the house &

j now, if you go down fo the woods foday you're in-a for a big-a surprise &

j its lovely down in the woods today you'd better go in disguise... &

oh, that I have. But I don't want to give it up.

- Give it up! - No!

J every Teddy bear who's been good is sure of a treat today &

j there's lots of marvelous things fo eat and wonderful games to play &

j beneath the trees where nobody sees j

j; Theyll laugh and shout in their bvds I

j 'cause that's the way the teday bears have their picnic j

ll ook at that bleached blonde.

Look, dogs.

What? Dogs?

Does she live on a farm, or what? Fifteen dogs?

J now, if you go down fo the woods foday you better not go alone &

j drop me down in the wash today... j

j for every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain because &

ji toaays the day the teday bears have their picnic j

j it's picnic time for Teddy bears j

js well, the Teddy bears are having a lovely time today &

& watch them, catch them unawares &

jd and see them frolic in their market underwear &

ji see them gaily gad about they love to laugh and shout &

j they never have any cares j

jd al six o'clock their mommies and daddies j

& will take them home to bed I

ji well, because they're tired and wired little Teddy bears j

Sir, you wouldn't be able to spare a little bit of change?

- No. - Not at all, huh?

You know you're a fucking dick?

I wasn't even thinking about running away or nothing,

you know, but, uh, my dad once fold me, if I ever got caught selling pot,

never come home cause hed kill me.

So when it all came down,

I just said, "oh, well.”

I never miss my mom and aad.

They're just part of my past now, the way I look at it.

Rat, you going with her? “What? Where?

- You going with her? - Who, her? This is my old lady here.

- Why? - Where you be living at?

I be living at the &' y-m-c-a j

there's this old abandoned hotel,

and we took all the furniture we could find in all the different rooms

and put it all in this one room.

And wed just carry water up in these gallon jugs

cause it didn't have no water or electricity.

And wed just shower down at this place called the compass on Washington Avenue

for 50 cents

and do our laundry in the laundromat and whatever it took.

You know, it was pretty easy, actually.

Smash, bang, crash 'em up.

And then me and Jack just started hanging out together.

I would never have even thought about catching the train, except for Jack.

He showed me the ways of the trains -

how they run, where they go.

And Jack taught us you can tell the main track because it sits highest.

They got, like, a gravel mound,

and it will sit higher than all the rest of the track.

And then you just look north, and that's toward the north yard.

Then you just count three tracks over to your right.

And, you know, wed just jump on a train and be on our way.

I want to be really rich and live on a farm

with a bunch of horses,

which is my main best animal,

and have three yachts or more

and diamonds and jewels and all that stuff

so you don't have any symptoms right now?

I don't think so.

But you do have some concern

that you might have a sexually transmitted disease?

Mm-hmm. Nothing serious.

It might just be trichomoniasis again. I don't know.

Uh-huh. You ever have one before?

- Mm-hmm. - What did you have?

I've had chlamydia, trichomoniasis and gonorrhea.

That's quite a bit.

I think it is very strange that older men like little girls,

cause they're perverts is what they is.

I mean, I like the money, but I don't like them.

You've been sexually active since the time that you were treated?

- What do you mean by that? - Oh, good question.

Have you had sex with anyone since you were treated in Portland?

No, just dates. And -

the first date I turned was about two Thursdays ago.

Then I turned another one on a Friday.

Some dates are - are nice,

and some of them, the young ones, are really cute,

but I don't want to be interested in them.

Except for the money, thats it.

Man, killer "doob-wah."

When wed get, uh, real low on money,

1d take Mike's .45, because 1d sold my .38,

and 1d go roll a queer.

Tastes like Colombian to me.

Ain't that bud that's going around, that's for sure.

Oh, no way. You gotta buy that stuff in grams.

I think it went out.

- What did? - Oh, I guess not.

You know Alan and that guy he was running around with?

He had us walking around mount Vernon for two days

looking for this queer that turned him on to all this procaine.

You know, we was gonna go and live in his house for a day,

and when he went to bed we was gonna tie him up,

you know, take all his money he had in his wall safe,

all his procaine and all his marijuana and stuff he had.

We walked around mount Vernon for two days looking for this guy.

- Yeah, he was telling me about that. - I finally told Alan and his friend,

I told him, "fuck off, man."

Me and Mike got on the freeway and hitchhiked up there to bellingham.

That's when you had all them fucking keys and the cops was asking you -

yeah!

What happened to that burlington northern key?

My mom's got all my keys.

Just a little bit?

Spare some change?

- You know I can't spare no change. - Come on, man. I'm poor.

Excuse me, sir. Can you spare a little bit of change?

I used to at least bring in $300, $400.

For a blow job, it would be 30 on up.

And for a lay, it would be, like, 40 on up.

Most of these veterinarian hos would charge more than,

you know, us little kids do.

Isn't it after every two weeks you can get pregnant?

After your period, every two weeks?

You can get pregnant anytime during your cycle.

A person can even get pregnant when she's having her period.

It's not as likely.

Okay, because I pulled a date and didn't use a rubber,

'cause he said he didn't use them, so...

How often do you usually have your periods?

Every four weeks.

Mm-hmm. They come pretly regular?

Well, I just started in August.

- Just in August? - August 17th.

So you'd only had the one in August?

And the one in September.

Uh-huh. Okay, so you've barely begun.

- Did you ever have periods before then? - Uh-uh.

- You're how old? - Fourteen.

And how would you feel about being pregnant?

- I want a baby. - You do?

But not by no trick, though.

But if you're pregnant right now,

then it would be a pregnancy by a trick.

And what's your feeling about being pregnant, if you are,

if a trick is the father?

Well, I'm not getting an abortion.

- You might? - No, I won't.

Oh, you would not get an abortion?

I don't believe in it.

What's your feeling about abortion?

Because it's like you're murdering somebody.

Murd - I can't pronounce the word.

But it's, like, it's a little baby inside you, and you're just killing it.

And that's not fair to the baby.

I mean, it's not the baby's fault. You know what I mean?

So that would not be a choice for you?

Mm-mmm.

So, you want to put your feet up?

Let's slide these things out a little bit.

Oh, man.

This one's stuck.

- Okay. Slide your bottom all the way down. - My blanket's falling.

A little bit farther until you can feel me.

Okay, that's good. Just like that.

I mean, I used to turn dates lots and lots of times.

Just about every day I'd be pulling dates,

day and night, day and night.

And then its just, like, I got busted five times,

so I don't pull dates that I don't know.

J if you want joy, you must jump for it j

j if you want joy &

j you must jump for it &

j the joy of the lord is... j

everybody say I did something when I wasn't nowhere the fuck around.

- That's what she just got through saying. - Nobody else called the police.

He sold me a gun, and it didn't work.

I gave it to this other dude to shoot and it blew up in his hands.

Hey, you wanna buy a knife off of me? I got two buck knives and a pig sticker.

Homeboy handed it to me. I seen the bullets in it.

I said, "thanks for the gun.”

He said, "you ain't taking my gun.” I said, "how come I ain't?"

J if you want joy, you must jump for it j

My mom, before she went on vacation, about 4:00 in the morning -

they left Friday - she comes down and she wakes me up.

She goes, "we're leaving now." And I go, "yeah, yeah."

It's 4:00 in the morning. "Yeah, bye." You know?

And she goes, "I know that you're a prostitute and everything

and I know what you're doing and I know you've got money."

And I jumped up. I'm like, "did you look in my purse?"

And she goes, "no." And I go, "mom, I am not. Just leave.”

She goes, "fine. Thanks a lot. I'll remember this.

All week, I'm going to be thinking about how much you love me and everything."

I don't care. She doesn't care about me.

She never did. She doesn't.

Oh, well.

My mama cares about me a lot.

Where is she? Where's she live?

She went to eastern Washington, I think, for the weekend.

That isn't even really my mom. I was adopted.

I don't even know who my real parents are.

I don't know if they're dead or alive or what.

I'm gonna find out, though, when I'm 18.

I can go through the court system and find out.

But... I don't know. Sometimes it seems like a waste of time.

If they didn't care enough to keep me,

why should I care enough to find out who they are?

Well, you know, they could be rich, though, right now.

You know what I'm saying? Could be rich. Real rich.

- Yeah. - But yet, they could be bums.

My real dad, I've never known.

He could be a guy thats really rich, anving a Mercedes, you know.

Or he could be one of these bums on the street

I don't know. I really want to meet him.

For all I know, you know, he could be one of these dates rolling around.

I could have dated him, for all I know.

“What?

Sarah, come here.

Where's that one dude with the gun?

Oh, he's in jail. He got busted.

I'm gonna spare some change here.

I love sparing change, man.

- All right, let's go. - You hit the people on that side.

- I'll hit them on this side. - All right.

Ma'am, you wouldn't be willing to spare a little change?

Excuse me, sir. Could you spare some change so me and my brother

- can get something to eat? - Where's your brother?

Right there. He's spare-changing too, so we can get some food.

- That's for you. - How you doing?

And this is for your brother.

- Thank you very much. - Thank you, sir.

Rat, his panhandling technique is a little on the rusty side.

He's golta take lessons from me. But me and him can make some good money.

We did once or twice.

All right.

Your mom is where?

I don't know. San Diego somewhere. My dad's in jail.

- Life's a bitch, ain't it? - Are you originally here from Seattle?

- Nope. - Where you from?

Port orchard. Well, Washington, yeah.

Been in New York once. I left.

I hitchhiked there, was there for an hour and left.

Shit.

- Redmond. - What jail is your dad in?

King county, going up to walla walla state penitentiary

for burglary and attempted arson.

So where you been living, before you lived in that - wherever you live at?

Oh, in that hotel? Yeah.

Is it seriously deserted?

How long you been living there?

Shit, since a month after I got here to Seattle.

- Where are you from originally? - California.

- What part? - Sacramento.

I went through there one time. It was bunk.

I don't like Sacramento. I lived right on the outside of Sacramento.

I went there and some faggot was trying to pick me up, but I robbed him for $150.

- Really? - Yep.

- Take his car too? - Hell no. I hitchhike.

I love hitchhiking.

Not in Seattle, though, 'cause the only ones that'll pick you up

is hippies, stoners, or fine girls.

I like the fine girls to pick me up.

I just started doing this stuff.

I never even thought of whoring before I got down here and then -

- you know Tracy? - Uh-huh.

She used to live with me when she was a homegirl.

She used to live with me because her parents kicked her out.

Then she disappeared. She went downtown with lorna.

- You know lorna? - Mm-hmm.

Lorna came back up and said, you know, "Tracy's a ho now."

So then I got really worried about her.

I go, "I gotta get her. I can't let her do that stuff."

'Cause I always heard bad things about, like, white slavery,

that she's gonna get beat up.

That's what scared me. So I thought, "I gotta come down here and get her out,

whether I gotta kidnap her or what."

I come down here, I see her, she goes, "it's great!"

So I'm just going, "what? I heard you don't like it here,

that you're getting beat up and raped and everything."

"No, I'm - I'm making so much money, and it's so easy.

The money comes so easy. It's great. You oughta do it."

Then I go, "how much money do you make?"

And she started naming off, and I just thought,

"wow! I think I'd better."

Hi, Dan.

This is Kimberly again.

Yeah.

So have you decided? Do you want a date tonight?

Juan always be lettin' them broads wear his coats and shit.

That bitch ain't gonna listen to him for long.

She only break $30 wops.

Floyd hit me so goddamn hard, man, when I woke up, man, it was dark.

I had to ask people around me what had happened.

He goes, "if anybody beats up on you, and I come and save you,

that means you gotta work for me."

I hope he doesn't get somebody to beat me up so I gotta work for him.

What is you talkin' 'bout? I don't do nothing for free. I'm a pimp.

He'll kill you. Okay? He'll ass-fuck you, fuck you in the ear, anything.

But I'm serious. Don't be with patrice. “Who?

I don't know about all that, but I know you're making a serious mistake.

I'm gonna go out to those high schools and get me some fresh ones.

He shoots up. He's a drug fiend.

Well, what do you want to do? Who do you want to be with?

I don't know. I'm confused. I don't know who's the right person.

I just don't know.

Oh, I know they know I'm fine.

See you later... baby!

Look, I'll tell you the truth, okay?

And this is the honest truth.

With me you'll be safer, happier... and richer.

Hey, come here! Hey!

Michelle!

Girlfriend!

He raped me last year when I first came downtown.

He raped you? He raped me too. He took my money too.

Up in the hotel. Came up there, told me he was gonna Rob some dude.

Oh, man. And he -

he took a fucking coat hanger and heated it up on the gas heater,

said he was gonna beat me if I didn't take off my clothes.

- I said, "I ain't taking off my clothes." - We're scaring her.

- Is that what you want? - We don't mean to scare you.

- Good. Scare her. Tell her the truth. - We're just telling you the truth.

She's running from me.

Ll ook at her run from me.

You get beat up, and some of these girls end up getting killed.

What, you think I'm a bad guy? Is that why you wanna do something like that?

No!

- Huh? - No.

Why - wh-why - why would you even think I'd -

what would give you the audacity to even think of me like that?

People get killed down here.

They go to jail down here.

Everything happens down here, and none of it's good.

I haven't seen nobody get killed.

I saw a guy get the shit get kicked out of him by three niggers

over in front of tj's this morning and get hauled off in the ambulance.

He got the shit kicked out of him

because he pulled a big old steak knife out on him.

You missed that one here, but that was just this morning.

So, who cares? I don't really care.

Whatever happens happens.

I should pass the word around. You're a snitch.

- Chris, just leave me alone. - What you gonna do about it?

Huh?

I'm gonna quit.

Snitch!

Sorry, but I ain't no tramp, and I ain't a fucking snitch either!

- Come over here and say it to my face! - I'm getting pissed.

Um, no, don't take a message.

Um, did he say what time he'd be back or anything?

Okay, well, thanks anyways.

Bye.

There's nothing happening!

He's cute!

I ain't trying to get in nobody's business.

I want you to call your man and tell your man I want to beat you up,

but I want to talk to him first to let him know what's going on.

'Cause he's streetwise like a motherfucker.

If you're gonna be downtown, you're gonna be cool,

you better learn the ways of the streets before you start hanging down there

and doing shit like you're doing.

We got five suspects caught, and he was one of 'em.

&' and he shall come &

jd knock, and the door &

j shall be opened unto you &

you stupid -

What the hell...

Up. Come on now, Jack. Let's go.

Me and Jack are real good friends.

He'll treat you right. He won't rip you off.

You know, when your back is turnea, he ain't gonna stab you.

Shit! What is all this shit?

I don't know, come on.

You want a jacket? A leather jacket?

No, it's full of grape jelly, man.

What the hell's all the poundin'?

- Well, this is a - - Chinese dumpster!

When you get regular dumpsters - we call em regs -

you go there every night.

You check all these dumpsters, all these different places,

and you can tell, because they're regs,

what's been there last week and what was put in there that night.

Cause a lot of people say,

"well, shit, that shit could be a week old and you can't even tell.”

But you can because it's your reg. You know, it's your regular dumpster.

- Look at this. - Oh, I think I hit the jackpot.

Jesus Christ!

This little boy is a love bird.

Young, dumb, and full of cum.

Ugh! You fool!

Oh! Is he gonna kick his ass? He's gonna kick his ass.

They both are!

- I told her I'd give her even bus fare. - Really?

I don't want to see her get beat up. She's too young.

- What are you? - I'm 15.

You ain't even 15. Don't tell me that.

- You ain't 15. - Fuckin' next year -

- bullshit! - Sixth of June, dear!

Bullshit. You're talking shit.

- How come you can't say it to my face? - I don't know what she's talkin' about.

- You ain't 15. - You ready?

- Look at me. - You ready?

- You ain't 15. - You ready?

- That's good. - That's good.

She ain't 15. She gonna get you in trouble.

I've talked kids into going home.

They say 13'll get you 20!

I help a lot of people out.

Thirteen - thirteen years old!

I ain't gotta prove myself fo show that I'm a girl.

I've thought about not being a lesbian,

but then every guy I've ever been with screwed me over anyway.

I get along with straight people too.

It's just most of them think because I'm gay,

I'm trying fo pick up on their girlfriends.

To tell you the truth, I gotta like somebody a lot to even kiss 'em,

to tell you the truth.

See, I'm my own type of person. I am.

I protect a lot of people.

This bum was trying fo feel on a friend of mine's chest

I literally walked up fo him, made him come back and apologize to the girl.

Because she's not public properly.

I could understand if it was a telephone pole or something.

He could touch it then.

It's just the way I am. I've been like that since I've been down here.

Cause nobody did nothing for me.

So I made him come back and apologize and sent him on his way.

I just told him, "go on, man, get out of here." He left.

Which means Washington weather should improve somewhat tonight.

“Improve” if you don't like the rain, because the rains gonna get worse.

Temperatures will remain moaerate statewide...

She has grown up quite a bit since she's been on these streets.

She's 14 going on 21.

Ge's new high-tech electronic dishwasher...

Extra pickles too, mom, please.

Put extra pickle on that.

Oh, when I was drinking,

Erin and I used to get in some bad arguments.

See, I could see it in her Mina, she's thinking, "oh, no, not again."

You know I don't like mustard or ketchup. It's gross.

Mmm! Thank you, mom.

I don't know why I started drinking.

I think just 'cause of boredom half the time.

I don't know.

Too much juice!

- Come on. Two more bites. - One more.

- Uh-uh. - I don't like the bread.

See, I've had Erin all my life.

I've had to bring her up myself and then -

and then one day, I suddenly get married.

And I think she likes Tom, but she just doesn't want to admit it.

Feel like I'm pregnant.

Oh, goodness.

- Don't you have no whipping cream? - No.

My fear is that someday I'm going to get a phone call or a knock on my door

and its - she's not gonna be there anymore.

Hi, babies! Hi!

We started living at Larry's a couple months ago

because my mom and my dad had got kicked out of their apartment,

and Larry offered them a place to stay.

- Ow. Shit. - Ferin.

Naturally, you call somebody who marries your mother a dad.

- Don't fall. - I won't.

Sometimes he's an asshole.

- But he's in the treatment center. - Puppas!

He's gotta stay there for two months.

Oh, for crying out loud.

Damn dog.

Quit pissing on the floor now. Look at this mess.

Open the other door.

Oh, for crying out... damn that dog.

Should've left her out.

What happened to this house? I cleaned it.

Oh. I'm gonna spray some deodorant around here.

My book.

Spray some right guard.

Right guard.

Well, you wanted the dog, Erin. I didn't want her.

I need more makeup, mom.

Well...

I wanted cloudy blue. Yeah.

Then I wanted Meadow violets.

- Yeah. - Then cl - uh...

She's always wanting this and wanting that.

Now, when you're a waitress, you just don't make that much.

I want these three frosts - blue flame, flash of blue, and country lavender.

One day she come home, told me she'd made $200.

I about fell off my chair.

And here, I wanted the best of bronze.

That costs too much. Look at the price on that.

- Two for $4.99. - Oh, two. Oh.

When Erin first told me about this,

she thought I would be really angry with her and hate her, but I don't

you gonna need some money for the weekend?

Yeah.

/fs just a phase she's going through right now.

I can't stop her from doing this cause she's just gonna do it anyways.

How much money can I get?

- Why? - Just wondering.

So you can spend it foolishly?

Whatever.

- Can I get 207? - No.

- Ten? Fifteen. - No.

- Ten? - Maybe.

You're gonna be gone the whole weekend.

- No. - I'm not gonna spend it on no dope.

She's very bullheaded. She kinda resented me getting married.

She and Tom, just - he tries to correct her.

What?

I was gonna say, you think I'd be getting that makeup

by the end of this month or next month?

Uh, probably about the 17th.

- The 17th? - Of October, yeah.

Isn't that the day you got married?

Oh, yeah! How about that?

He beats up on my mom.

He broke her leg before.

I betcha dad's gonna start bitching at you, probably.

No. About what?

Probably wondering if you was sleeping with Larry or not.

Oh, Erin!

- I'm not saying you did. - For heaven's sakes.

But that's what he's gonna start bitching at you about.

He doesn't work.

He depends on my mom a lof, which is not right.

I think a man should support the woman.

He says, "she doesn't have the money" and all this other shit

and I say, "it's because of you.

Because you spend her money on beer, and she doesn't have time for me."

Now my mom's in a mess she can't get out of.

I feel really sorry for her.

Be a year.

Year has gone by fast, huh?

Huh?

Mom?

Yes.

Don't bug me...

When I'm drinking.

When I first ran away and came here fo Seattle,

I was tired of being the middle man between my mom and my dad's divorce.

I fold my mom when I called her about two weeks after I got here,

you know, I was in trouble with the law,

and she understood it, you know.

She said, "all right, I'll see you when you're 18."

And I said, "all right.”

And then about a month later I called her again and I said,

"hey, mom, hows it going?”

And she said, "oh, it's awful. I'm broke.

He's trying fo drain me, trying to make my life miserable."

And she started crying a lot and asking me to come home,

and il just said, "mom, I gotta go,” and I hung up on her.

Sir, you wouldn't have a dime, would you? I need to finish my laundry.

And then I never called her again. I never wrote her a letter or nothing.

I need to finish my laundry. I need one more dime.

- Here you go, son. - Thanks a lot.

Have a good day.

Fuck it, you know.

Let her think what she wants - I'm dead, whatever she wanis to think.

But I don't want to listen to her cry.

Making me feel bad.

That building at 1420 second Avenue,

by the grace of god, will be the new shelter

that will sleep 200 men and 15 women and two families.

And all we ask from you is one dollar.

We don't ask for tens, twenties, and hundreds.

But you let god move on you and you give one dollar,

and god will bless you.

For 14 years, I believed that god was dead!

But I do not believe that anymore.

Billy Graham convicted me when he pointed his finger right at me

and said, "god wants you to serve him!"

When you leave here, what you gonna do? You gonna go home.

- Right, brother? - Sure am.

Yeah, you're gonna go home, and you're gonna go into your big house,

and get in your big bed,

and sleep with your big wife, and all that there, brother.

I'm gonna go to my house and I'm gonna pack food for tomorrow's food bank.

- Okay, what religion are you? - I'm pentecostal.

- You're pentecostal? - Full gospel.

That's what I was raised as, a pentecostal.

But I don't believe that shit.

You want to know how they're working us? This is how they working us.

Remember once a year in school when they'd tell you,

"bring your canned goods and give 'em to us?"

That's what they're doing.

They say, "bring your canned goods and give 'em to us."

Then they turn around and give 'em back to you.

Then they say, "we're doin' somethin'.

We're doing something for y'all. Give us some money."

That's how they working us, man.

I could stand here and say, "yes, lord. Thank you, Jesus. Give me a dollar.”

- You know? I can do that. - Well, you could.

Yeah, right, I could, and probably get a dollar.

- It's your privilege. - But see, man, all this is nothing.

But I'm not standing here for me. You would be standing there for you.

- Who you standing here for? - I'm standing there for you.

- You standing here for me? - That's right.

- Ain't that nothin'! - 'Cause you might be hungry this winter.

You ain't gave me a dime. We're wise out here, man. Streetwise.

Because the whole situation is, everybody scamming. You're scamming.

You and I gonna have to talk about this. Maybe you can wise me up a little bit.

Yeah, 'cause you need a lot of wising...

If you think you're going to get rich standing out here.

What gives you the audacity to think

that we gonna come off our street life into your program, right?

- I don't want you in my program. - Ah, just a second ago you said -

all I want to do is just bring you in and give you a good night's sleep.

I can wake up in the morning, go downstairs, eat some cap'n crunch?

- Cookies and coffee, whatever we got. - And I can leave and come back again?

- Then you can leave again. - Can I bring my girlfriend?

No. If you do, she'll have to stay in a different place.

- No, brother. It don't work like that. - Yeah, it works that way.

- No, but I like you, brother. - I like you too.

- What's your name? - Tom Robinson.

Let me have a card. Can I have a card?

J my mama done told me you better shop around &

& my mama told me j

there's many different scams. There's eat and run.

That's where you go info a restaurant. You know, you order something.

Usually, theyll set you right by the cash register if you look young

and like you don't have no money so they can see you.

But right by the cash register is right by the door,

so that works out even better

there's also dumpster diving.

You call shakey's pizza.

You can do it right out in front of the restaurant at a pay phone.

They got a pay phone out front.

You call 'em up, you order these hawailan-style pizzas

with Canadian bacon, you know.

Yes, I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with pineapple on it.

They ask your name and your number and you give it fo 'em.

Uh, regular crust. Richard.

345-9762.

Yes, it is.

All righty. Bye-bye.

You hang up, they call you right back, you know.

You say, "yeah, I ordered this, this, and this,"

they say "all ight," and you hang up.

Yes, this is Richard.

Yes, I did.

Uh, thin crust with, uh, pepperoni and pineapple.

All righty. Bye-bye.

And then about an hour, you know, nobody comes fo claim the pizzas,

and they set 'em out in the dumpster in the boxes.

And you go over there, you know, you got six or seven free pizzas.

It's easy fo survive without pulling tricks or dates on the streels.

You get two hits out of every pack, man. Five dollars a hit.

I sell it all the time, man. It sells like pancakes. Hell yeah.

Me and junior made over a hundred and something bucks

selling nothing but bunk at a concert.

Then we went and bought some good cocaine and...

Oh, you guys be trippin', man!

You never really see James around that much.

He's always off gone somewhere, you know.

No tellin' what he's doing. I doubt if he's turning tricks, though.

The first one you do, the last two we do. But you make sure that we do them, okay?

It's your responsibility to make sure you walk out of here alive.

All right.

Okay, hold a fist for me.

There we go.

You gotta be over 18 to sell blood,

so the kids on the streets can't sell it,

so they can't make money that way.

But if you get a fake ID and you look 18,

you can go there and sell blood.

I asked Steve. He gives me big old leftovers like this.

- Big plateful that's this high and shit. - Ugh! Leftovers.

I could give you a big old foot full of something right now.

No, leftovers from the same night. You know, like lasagna and shit.

49th and kenyon. He was telling me that your friends -

no, my friends. I said, "remember that address for me."

- Oh, okay. - Hey, back off, Jackson. I gotta -

Donna!

- Back off. - Give me your money, boy.

- Give me my money. - Give you your money?

Yeah, give me - it's gonna be my money when I take it from you.

- Donna! - How much money you think I took?

Whatever you got in your pocket's mine.

Uh, let me see.

Crap!

- What was that? - We just playing.

If you're a goddamn woman, why don't you act like one?

- Fuck you. Fuck you. - Don't you know how?

- Don't you know how to act like a woman? - I am a woman! Yeah!

Well, then act like one!

I don't have to act like all these bitches down here, hell no!

I'm not talking about acting like a bitch! Talking about acting like a woman, Lulu!

- You don't do that! - Fuck you! You ain't my man!

You don't tell me shit!

I wouldn't be your man even if you liked men!

You can't tell me shit! You can't tell me nothing!

Bitch, I'm telling you all kinds of things!

Fuck you, punk!

Yeah, punk!

- Bitch! - Punk!

- Ho! - Punk!

- Tramp! - Get your kc,

the one with the burning goddamn gonorrhea!

I ain't putting on a dress for noboay.

I haven't done it since I was 76.

I've had my nose broke five times.

And I've had both sets of my eye bones on top and bottom broke.

Kiss my motherfuckin' ass!

I've had my jaw cracked three times.

He ain't got nothin' on me! What the fuck is it to you?

11 tell people they can beat the shit out of me,

but they're not getting me away from down here.

Calvin and Erica been down here?

Erica was, yeah.

'Cause I hear - this girl told me that they're after my ass.

So I gotta keep it cool.

Man, I wouldn't even worry about 'em.

A lot of people after my ass 'cause I'm not working anymore, so I don't know.

Well, be with me and you wouldn't have to work.

- No. - I'm serious.

No.

No motherfucker's gonna fuck with you.

No, I'm just not gonna come down here anymore.

- I just felt coming down here today. - Let me get your phone number then,

so I can call you, so we can go out for pizza or something.

I don't have a phone right now.

Well, let me give you my number and you call me.

- Okay, whatever. - Anybody got a pen?

Don't got no pen. Anybody got a pen?

Say, anybody got a pen?

Nobody got a pen.

Fuck.

There's a pen. Thank you, sir. Anybody got a piece of paper now?

Whoa!

Well, you gained about three inches in height

since we saw you almost a year and a half ago.

You haven't gained much weight. You're about the same weight as you were.

I eat all the time, but I don't gain no weight or nothing.

Think there's a worm inside me or something.

- You think you got worms, huh? - I don't know.

- I want to get it checked out. - Sure.

Can you sort of straighten up?

Do you spend a lot of time on the streets?

Yup.

- What do you do down there? - Panhandle. Just hang around.

- Hug all the girls and stuff. - Mmm.

- You got a lot of girlfriends? - Yup.

Mmm.

Let's see those tonsils and see how they look now.

- Ah! - That's good. That's good. Take it easy.

When did you have tonsillitis last?

Um, let's see.

When I was locked up in echo Glen. That was maybe two months ago.

- Did you go to school last year? - Nope.

For two years, I haven't been to school.

So you haven't been to school since you were 12, huh?

No. I'm 16.

- You're 16 now? - Yep.

- Does it hurt when I do this? - Nope. It feels good.

Feels good, huh?

What do you think youd like to do someday?

I don't know.

- Anything interest you at all? - Nope.

You got lots of big glands in your neck.

You got chronically infected tonsils,

which certainly don't help your growth and your nutrition any.

I might join the Navy if the world lasts that long.

Reagan's sending all them marines shooting everybody.

All them marines gettin' shootin', cuttin' out Russia,

and Russia's probably gonna bomb us or something.

- Yeah, right there. - That hurts, huh?

- Yeah. - That hurt bad or just a little?

- Just a little. - Just a little, huh?

Oh! Right there hurts. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I had a blade like that until I got busted.

It was that black one right there.

You ain't got 50 cents?

Not today. I got a job.

- You want a job? - Nah.

Why don't you just walk up to some guy and ask him for 50 cents to catch the bus?

- 'Cause I ain't got a face like yours. - Oh, it'll work.

He's the worst one on pike street. He's the worst one out of them all.

He'll be your buddy when you're face to face,

but as soon as you turn around, you got a knife in your back.

It ain't worth it.

You learn how to fight, one way or another, or you disappear.

I know how to fight, but I like disappearing.

My mother and father got a divorce when I was about a year old.

My mother decided I should go to a foster home.

About five years ago, my father says, "I want you to come over."

So, I spent six months with my father.

Six months were up, nobody could find my mother.

A year went up, nobody could find my mother.

My father got tired of me and my sister.

He fold me fo leave.

I left

hi. Is mom there?

Hi. How ya doing?

Nothin". Just called to tell you I'm okay and shit.

Where am I? None of your business.

You don't even know.

No, call me a prostitute. Come on, I dare you to.

No, that's not what I'm doing,

but that's what you called me last time I was gone.

Yes, you did.

I called to tell you I'm okay, to see how you were doing,

and now I'm gonna hang up saying I'm okay.

And I hope you have fun with your stupid-ass husband. Bye.

Ooh, she pisses me off.

Shellie, she's a real sweet girl.

The streets is nothing for a girl that young.

I mean, 14 years old and on the streets?

I've taken care of her a little here and there, made sure she's eatin'

she's like a little sister.

I like women for the simple reason they're sweel,

they're caring, they need care.

With somebody that cares and loves me.

In return I'll give them everything I've got.

One thing I don't do is fall in love in two or three days.

I've made many mistakes. You've never lived on the streets.

I've made many mistakes -

I have so lived on the streets before.

Not like this. Not like I have.

I don't want to live on the streets like you have.

I'm not going to either, man.

Are you gonna help me dye my hair?

- Hell no. I can't dye hair, man. - I'll do it myself then.

I'll do it myself then.

I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna do it myself then.

Why do you want your hair dyed?

To change?

Not actually to change. To get away from everything.

That ain't gonna get you away from Jack shit, honey.

It will, considering I'm gonna dye my hair.

My mom's got seven kids.

She's 32

I can't have you living out on the street.

So? I can't have me living here.

I'm trying to get some input from you, shellie,

anything but sarcasm.

That's all I get around here.

- That's all I ever hear from Larry. - That's his way of dealing with people.

Right.

He makes me sick.

From when I was little and he was a pervert and shit.

When every time I remembered that,

every time I remember what he did to me, when he took advantage of me and shit -

I didn't know. You wouldn't tell me.

I didn't know it until you started asking me!

- But you wouldn't tell me then. - I told you that he did.

When you asked me if he did a certain thing, I said, "yeah."

And then when you went and told him, ever since then he's hated me.

Yeah, but he didn't do it anymore.

So? I still hate him for doing it to begin with.

My wishes would be fo have a small family that was happy.

Just my older brother and my real dad and me and my mom.

Nobody else.

Shadow asked me, if he found a place for me fo stay,

a permanent place, would I stay there?

And I said, "yeah, probably."

He says, "well, Patti and munchkin said you can stay with them.

They need the money for rent.”

I grew up with munchkin.

For a long time, I ran around with him.

And Patti, I met her down here about three years ago

beating the heck out of some old dude cause he said something wrong to her.

Patti and munchkin are very -

they - they were, in my eyes, maae for each other.

They argue. But doesn't all love affairs argue?

Get him, hon.

They're together, and that's the way it is.

Patti and munchkin are a team. That's the way they work the best.

A street couple that are struggling to survive.

Every person, no matter how big or tough they are,

should always have a partner.

You never want fo go on the streets alone. It's a mistake.

Whoo!

It's just you'll get lonely, you'll get upset, you'll get beat up.

Because you never can tell if someone's gonna come up from the front of you

and start to get your attention,

and then this other dude is gonna walk up behind you

and bust your fucking head.

Partners are always belter.

"Immediately after mixing, squeeze preference.

Mix all mixture until thoroughly saturating hair.

Loosely pile hair on top of head.

Leaves your hair silky, shiny and free of tangles."

Okay. Goddamn glove.

Well, I consider myself a playboy.

A boyfriend is, you're obligated to one girl.

Apply on top of head lightly.

I considered myself dependent upon a couple of girls supporting me.

But as far as being a pimp, no. I never pushed them out onto the street.

You can't be a boyfriend and have three girlfriends,

but you can be a playboy.

A playboy is what I consider myself.

Standby alert. Death star approaching.

Estimated time to firing range: 15 minufes.

Let me see, shadow.

See?

Thank you. You're welcome.

Hi, little boys. Want some candy?

Goddamn.

I can just see what you're giving those little boys.

I'm gonna get a tattoo right there to cover this mess up.

- Why? - Why?

Because that looks sick. Hold on.

That right there is what I'm gonna have done.

- Really? - Looks hungry, don't he?

You ever heard of d&d - dungeons and dragons?

- Yeah. I've played it before. - You have? Far out.

Guess how much this is gonna cost me to have it done in a tattoo right here?

- How much? - Fifty.

Me and Patti want to get dragons on each side of our arms.

I want to get just this dragon. It's one of my characters.

- J all night long & - He's my character.

Shut up.

Son of a fucking bitch.

Shit, I don't know what's my problem.

But now she's married again.

That's why I'm not at home. 'Cause I can't stand my stepdad.

Nobody can stand their stepdads.

Some people get along fine with them. My first -

too much smoke. My first stepdad was okay.

I got an idea that - it's fantastic.

We'll make some money and then you can -

we'll put it in, uh, Lee & sons thrift shop.

We're gonna open up our own store, like that thrift store I had.

Mm-hmm.

Now as soon as I'm out a little while I want you to come with me,

'cause I've already talked to some people about a building in maybe redmond.

Look around out there. See if there's any good thrift shops out there.

- All right. - I was supposed to get out this Friday.

But I won't because I've got to wait for the damn parole board.

If it'd just been that burglary it'd been all right,

but it was that stupid arson thing, so the board wants to talk to me.

And like he said and everybody says, you know, I've done 30 years.

What the hell good is it gonna do to make me do a couple more years?

I've only got three years left on my Max.

- Are you in a cell by yourself? - No, I-I'm in the - I'm in the mean tank.

That's a-5. That's the mean tank.

That's for guys who've done time and everything before.

For a felony and stuff? Yeah.

- Is a bunch of the jokers in there? - Two of 'em are, yeah.

Is one stubbs? Yeah.

- Tell him I say hi. - Yeah, yeah.

What's this? You're gonna have to take your tonsils out?

They say it's always infected and stuff, so I don't know.

They think that's why I'm so small and stuff.

Well, you know, that's funny. I was that way too.

- Were you small like this and stuff? - Yep, yep.

So it could just be...

And then they took them out,

and about a year after that, I got almost as big as I am now.

'Cause I eat all the time and stuff, and I don't gain no weight.

Wait, after - so, you think it's just - what do you call it?

- Tonsils and adenoids. - Yeah, but -

- heditary - hereditary. - Yeah, yeah.

All right. Yeah, how much are you smoking?

Oh, I'm cuttin' down to maybe four cigarettes a day.

Four or five.

All right. Well, that's good.

You know, don't smoke too much 'cause that's bad too.

All right, hold on.

Still messing with that weed?

- Huh? - Still messing with that weed?

A little.

- How about anything else? - Nope.

- Let me see your arms. - My arms? Why?

Undo your sleeve.

No, I haven't been doing none of that. Here, I'll even show you. Here.

See? Hold on.

- See? Nothing. - Okay.

- What you messing with? - Huh?

- What you messing with? - Nothing.

You've got intelligence. You've got my brain.

But you're like me.

What do you wanna be, a little punk on the street?

Huh? Eh? You wanna be a little punk?

A little smart-ass little punk. That's all you think you are.

You're gonna wind up just like I am.

Look at me when I talk at you. Look at me.

Pay attention to me.

That's the dang trouble. You haven't paid any attention to me.

There's a guy in our tank, 24 years old.

They just gave him four life sentences.

Twenty-four years old.

It won't be too damn many more years that they'll be doing that to you.

They're not gonna slap your little hand

and send you up to echo Glen or some damn place.

Is that what you want? Huh?

No.

Yeah, you say it now 'cause you're sitting here talking to me.

Get your hands out of your mouth. Let me see your fingers.

Still biting your damn nails too, ain't you?

- Yep. - Huh?

- Yep. - When you gonna stop doing that?

Huh? When you gonna stop doing that?

You're out there, tough guy on the street, man.

Big-time, tough little punk is all you are.

Can't even quit biting your fingernails.

You're too goddamn little to be tough, kid.

I'm - I'm serious.

I love you very, very much, even though I get mad at you and want to kill you.

I love you. You're - you're all I've got.

And unfortunately, I'm all you've got.

I'm gonna make it up to you. Eh?

For all the stuff that we didn't do.

You know? Eh?

I know I have to talk rough to you sometimes, dewayne,

but you know that I love you a whole big, big bunch.

If I get out this time, if I get out,

I'll keep you straight and you keep me straight.

- Is that a deal? - Mm-hmm.

- Huh? - Mm-hmm.

Just remember, you and I is all we've got.

And together, hey, there ain't nobody can whip us.

Ain't nobody can do anything to us.

I love you.

All right, bye.

Look at you. All beat up and cut up and scarred up and drugged up.

I can't get over that.

After I sent for you all the way from California, down there stranded.

And you didn't even thank me. You ought to thank me now.

Thank you, mom.

Call her up. You can call her up.

Nikita and them calls me, and Todd calls me.

- Do you love your mother? - Yes.

When you gonna show me?

Hmm?

When you gonna make me proud?

So that's what you should do. You should stop and see mom.

You know what I mean?

'Cause she is the only one got a guide map to your life.

Because you can't go nowhere

unless you ask your mother advices and things, you know that?

He don't want no advice right now. He thinks he's doin' it.

- That's why he's getting knocked around. - You think you're doin' it?

I love you, patrice. You wanna go eat something?

I'm not gonna just give you my money now.

If you wanna go eat something, I'll feed you.

- I'm not hungry, ma. - Yes, you are.

What did you eat today?

Um... some cookies and, um...

- Junk food? - And some juice.

You want something hot in your stomach. That's what you need.

Well, if I give you some of my money, what you gonna do with it?

Save it.

Oh, yeah. How you gonna save it out here?

You'll just tell me anything just to shut me up, huh?

I'm tellin' you. He gonna save it.

- You got some money, mama? - Mmm, a little change.

If I think you're buying a pack of cigarettes,

next time I see you I won't give you a dollar.

- Okay. - Or some weed.

- Yeah, you better not. - Mm-hmm.

You know, that's hard-work money. I worked for that money.

- You spend it wisely. Okay? - Okay.

And when you get straight, you know where your house is.

- Okay. - Okay.

And the only way you can really get straight,

you have to stay in touch with mom, because you can't straighten yourself.

I have seven brothers and sisters.

I lost one seven months ago from, uh, cirrhosis of the liver.

She was 26.

I loved her a lot

it made me sort of loony for about a month, month and a half

people thought I was going crazy.

I wasn't going crazy. I just couldn't handle it.

Fuck that!

I just got out of jail not even a month ago.

I ain't getting in no trouble, punk!

I bet you, guaranteed, I got a bruise on my arm,

and I'm pressing charges on your ass.

Punk!

'Cause I hate you and I'm gonna get you for that.

- Hey, you want him? - I'm not a him. I'm a her.

- Can you please calm down? - I'm pressing charges.

- I want you to know that. - Fine, you do that.

- Are you a sergeant? - I'm asking you to please calm down.

I'm calm.

Now will you please leave? Because we have quite a crowd here.

You're a punk!

Punk!

I don't give a fuck!

Falling in love, there's pain.

All you feel is the first initial needle.

The rest is lingering pain from when the needle's pulled out

That burns.

- That's the worst part of it. - Yeah, I know.

- Well, how do you like it? - That's nice.

Honey...

Come and help me figure this out.

Now hold this.

- Right here. - What, there?

Right there.

Bring your head back up here.

Shit burns your eyes, I'm telling you.

You're not supposed to have your eyes open.

- Yeah, you poked me in my eye now. - Stop being a jerk.

Thanks. You just wiped it right across my fucking eye.

God, man.

Why don't you do your own fucking perm, then?

I probably have about a hundred kids on my caseload.

Of course, Patti is Patti.

She's an individualist,

and she'll go along with you if you're doing what she wants,

but she isn't gonna do a damn thing that she doesn't want to do.

I knocked on the door, and I was just worried about you.

I don't care how worried you're getting about me.

All I gotta say is, you don't got no right walking into my house.

But this morning, we've got the - you know, we've got job therapy.

We know that, but, Jerry, you gotta understand

that you can't just be walking into my house.

You might get shot, as far as you know.

I took the chance you wouldn't shoot me. And then I did, I banged on the door -

well, the next time, you're getting shot, okay?

Okay.

So that means the rent's due today, right?

- No. - And if you're gonna stay here -

- not from what Bob says. - Ltis.

I give Bob $20 and I told him I'd give him the rest Friday.

This is the deal. If you're gonna stay here, you've gotta go out to job therapy.

You can't tell me what to do.

We've been together, working together on this.

Me and you ain't been together. “We have.

We've been working together, Patti. And I'm concerned about you, you know.

I don't want you guys to have to hit the bricks again.

I don't want you to have to get back into some crap

that you shouldn't be involved in to pay your rent.

You've got a chance to make it a good way, okay?

Now, this guy has got some ideas that can help you get a job.

That's a better life for you

than having to be hustling on the streets or be down there pushing -

- who says we're hustling on the streets? - How else you gonna make your money?

Most of the kids on the streefs, that's how they survive.

They feel like if they don't do the dates,

that they're gonna be broke, they're gonna have to dumpster dive,

they're gonna have to beg for money,

and that's gonna make them feel, because they're girls,

like, "oh, I'm no good.

I'm dirty, I'm rotten, I'm a scum.

I'm living in this rathole, you know.

No water, no electricity, no nothing.

I'm begging for money.”

I guess they feel that's worse than pulling dates.

I don't know what their problem is.

Munchkin's the one that wants us out there ho-ing and shit. I don't want to do it.

The only reason why I'm out there is because, like I said, Patti -

Patti's out there and she has to have somebody with her.

- But you wanna make him go to you - - Hi

how you doing?

- I'm okay, how are you? - Oh, hi.

And when I moved in with them, I said,

"Patti, I don't wanna be ho-ing or anything."

She said, "you won't be. Munchkin's not gonna pimp you or nothing."

Do you turn dates now?

Hell yeah. With her. Me and Patti do.

I try to tell Patti I don't want to,

and she'll start bitching at me, saying that I just missed a $100 date.

Every time I fuck up, she says it was a $100 date.

When you do make money, do you give it to munchkin?

- I give it to Patti. - All of it?

And Patti gives it to munchkin.

And you haven't got nothing out of it, huh?

Uh-uh.

Me and Patti are both mad right now, because munchkins sending us out here.

He's sending both of us out here fo fucking get him a suit.

All he wants is a whole bunch of clothes and shit

get this. Patti hasn't pulled any dates today at all.

- And you have? - I did two.

Forty bucks each.

No, you don't know what I'm doing, man.

- I don't like the shit that you think. - Neither do I.

Doesn't make me happy.

That's why I walked by without even talking to you.

For the simple reason that that's what I thought you were doing.

But I ain't. I don't do that kind of shit. I told you.

- Then what you doing just sittin' there? - I'm talking!

All he does is fuckin' shoot the shit up his damn arm, man.

Well, I told her, I said, "hey, I can't handle this.

I'm gonna take off and shit."

Last night, she says, "you ain't going nowhere."

And I said, "yes, I am."

This morning she was talking all this shit about

how she was gonna sock me if I even tried to go up there and stuff.

I mean, I was just tripping out.

How the hell can these people just think they own me and shit?

Nobody does.

You end up with the wrong people down here, it's just -

you wanna know who set me up with the wrong people?

- Who? - A person by the name of shadow.

Huh.

You changed too.

When I first ran into you, you were real sweet.

- I still am. I still am. - Oh, yeah, uh-huh.

When you ended up at George's, you were a real pain in the ass.

Now you're even worse.

I was a real pain in the ass because you fucking bullshitted me.

- You don't bullshit with me! - But I keep wanting to. I don't know why.

Probably because I like you.

- Drop that cigarette. - It's not done.

Now it's done.

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I like a lot of the girls on the street

tiny, I like her especially.

She's a sweet girl.

You're a surprise.

Wanna go swimming?

You think I'm crazy or something?

Right. Let's just jump in.

All right.

How about a back flip?

The reason why I think rat is cute,

and the reason why I love him so much, is because he's got pretty eyes.

I think they're brown or blue. One or the other

I gotta go back to school someday.

'Cause I need a diploma so I can get into the air force.

But right now, the open road, usa, is for me.

Check you out.

I didn't talk to her much about her being a prostitute.

She hadn't done it that often from what she told me.

Now where's my kiss, honey-bunch?

Not with braces.

Okay, dewayne, right in here.

There we go.

I'm the smallest guy in the unit.

Are you? Yeah, for a while I thought maybe you'd be in the other unit.

Junior boys? Nah, 'cause of my age.

- So when will I be released? - Okay, now here's the deal.

Um, I got a phone call from Kim yesterday, and I wasn't in.

Then I phoned Kim this morning

'cause I need to talk to her before you get out of here.

They won't tell us nothing unless we are his parents

or got a piece of paper that says I'm his legal guardian, and I'm not.

Do you understand what I'm saying? I am not his legal guardian.

No, I don't understand.

I'm temporary guardian.

No - fuck that pig.

So all I can do is just keep trying.

And as soon as I get ahold of her,

I've given permission for her to come down and get you.

The court worker signed the papers so she can get you out of here.

What do you want me to do? I'll do it!

I'll go down there and waste some time and not find out where the fuck he's at.

Just shut up, man.

Kim, with that new baby, she doesn't need any of these problems.

Youre in a really touchy situation anyway, right?

You're living with an 18-year-old who used to be real active on the streets herself.

- Kim's 20. - Is she 20 now? Okay.

Legally, she's not a foster parent.

- Well, then give me his phone number! - I go look in the phone book.

- Under "Jerry esterly"? - No, under juvenile parole services.

They're closed, Steve. It's 5-fucking-15 in the fucking afternoon!

I think it's really good. You guys are working out like a family.

And I think it's a good arrangement for you.

But I don't want you getting busted and messing that up. Okay?

Right now, you're charged with selling pot.

So as far as you staying away from downtown,

I don't care whether you stay away from downtown or not.

You've got a lot of friends down there.

I think that you have to use your own judgment on that.

- Yep. - Okay?

Uh, you know the things you'd better not be doing downtown.

- Yeah. - The police, everybody knows you there.

- Yeah. - Okay?

If you're dealing dope, they're gonna bust you again.

And if you get busted again,

then you're not gonna get out of here until after your hearing.

Shell start talking about,

"oh, I wanna have a kid," and all this shit

she just wants to get too serious at too young of an age.

Aah!

She's only 14 years old,

and she makes it sound like she's ready to get married.

- Well, then don't leave. - I got to.

No, you don't.

Yeah, I gotta get Mike out of juvenile hall.

Why?

'Cause I can't have my best friend locked up.

Gotta go break him out.

Check you out.

I'm serious. I'm gonna go break him out.

Then we're gonna go to Florida.

And what if you get caught?

Oh, well. I'll still be with him.

They'll throw me in jail right along with him.

Women are a pain in the ass on the road.

Come here.

I can't stand watching you and that dog.

Shit.

Puppas!

- Throw that thing out the window. - Uh-uh.

Ugly.

Aw, man. Shit.

He'll be with you soon. Then we're gonna leave you alone.

We're not even going to talk to you no more.

I don't want you guys to be mad at me.

- Who's gonna be mad? - Fuck you, Diane.

I wouldn't want you to.

I wouldn't want him to with you either.

Somebody's watching.

She's going to kidnap me tonight and take me home.

- Bullshit. - Yeah, she is.

- You gettin' a new family. - Bullshit.

- Go ahead and go with her. - Why do you say that?

Because if you want to, go ahead.

Doesn't matter to me.

- Aha, I found it. - Oh, you did.

We got in a fight. She was drunk that night.

Mama, go away.

She was slapping on me and I was slapping back on her

cause she hit me and I hit her back.

The masterpiece.

7he next day, she felt really bad.

Finally, one day, I woke up and said,

"I'm an alcoholic. /'d better do something about it."

- You coming? - Yeah, I'm a-coming, I'm a-coming.

- Goodbye, mama. - Goodbye, honey. I love you.

- I love you too. - I'll be back.

No fucking walls or anything.

You got one little stair into the bedroom.

And you can look over to see there's a whole room in the front.

Then it has a bathroom, right? It has fucking see-through curtains.

Jumped out the car and went "pow!"

What's your name?

Did somebody hurt you?

What did they do to you?

Hey, really, I won't hurt you. See? I'm not...

- Looks like her jaw is broke. - Her jaw is broken?

She's been banging her head on the wall. Her eyes are rolling.

- What has she been taking? - I don't know.

- Open your eyes. - Her tongue was sticking out.

Come on now. We're here to help you. I want to look at your eyes for a second.

Think somebody assaulted her, to tell you the truth.

She take any medications?

You have a half an hour for visiting.

A half hour?

- You're stupid! - I am not. It wasn't my fault.

Well, if you wouldn't have been in that next room,

hanging your fucking head out the window, yelling,

"hey, guys, I'm over here! Look! What you doing?"

I didn't say that!

Sitting there halfway out the window, talking to 'em.

Can't ever keep your fucking head in, can you?

Like Brian says, "you can take the ho off the street,

but you can't take the street off the ho."

Oh, well. I guess it don't matter to me. I didn't get arrested.

You're lucky. You're real lucky.

Just gotta stay one step ahead.

- You left me there! - That's right. I sure did.

It wasn't my fault.

You didn't say, "hey, rat, where are you going?

Hey, rat, take me with you."

I would've never got caught. I wouldn't be in here till Monday.

I'll be gone by Monday.

I don't want you to leave. Why can't you leave till next Sunday?

'Cause I got places to go and things to do.

Wait till next Sunday. Come on.

This is the last time you guys get to see me. Or you.

Oh, well.

You missed a good fight there tonight. Lulu kicked this one whore's ass.

She said, "you bitch," and she fucking smacked her right in the face.

You know, she didn't smack her. She punched her.

Broad fell down, jumped up and just took off running all the way up to pike -

who was this girl?

She's sort of tall. She's real skinny, like you.

And she's got real dark, short hair, black hair.

I'd show her to you, but you ain't getting out till Monday,

and I'm leaving Sunday.

- Why? - Why?

Why do you have to leave a day before I get out?

Why? Because Monday, Mike gets out. Gonna break him out Monday.

Thump! Take their cuff keys.

Open the door, take Mike's cuffs off, and off to Alaska we go. That simple.

Maybe we'll stop through here and pick you up.

- Maybe? - Doubt it.

I doubt it, but maybe.

Oh, well. So long.

Tiny.

Hey, tiny.

What's the matter?

- What's the matter? - Nothing.

Then why you crying?

If nothing's the matter, why are you crying?

You should have figured it out by now.

Well, I gotta go.

Go, then.

Hm?

Don't I at least get a hug goodbye?

/-/ found out in the morning that, uh, there'd been a suicide.

Uh, I didn't know who it was, and I didn't think of dewayne,

even though I knew he was in that institution.

Dewayne, um, hung himself.

The one thing that dewayne wanted was - was a family.

And he wanted to grow up as, uh, what he saw as just a regular kid.

I think that he sort of had that dream of,

uh, a mother and a father and a house in the country,

and maybe a horse or a bicycle to ride on.

He just wanted what every kid has a right to have, I think.

At the funeral home, there was his father.

There were guards, prison guards, because of his dad's status.

Three other people.

Uh, all three who worked with dewayne in one way or another

as part of the social service agencies.

And that was it

so it was pretty much as his life has been.

If was a pretty lonely, pretty skimpy affair.

Lord, in our lives, we are often confused,

and we often ask, "why?"

But it is times like these when our "why?" Becomes our strongest cry.

Get a girlfriend, have a house or a car or something.

Have a little money in the bank, get a job.

That's what I expect out of life.

Not much.

I love you.

And I'm sorry.

But I'll see you.

It's my understanding dewayne will be cremated

and his ashes spread out on puget sound.

Dewayne was a - a street kid.

Dewayne drifted all his life.

And, uh, it - it seemed better for me

than putting him in a hole in the ground in a box where he's gotta be there.

Um, he's free.

He's never been that way before.

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